We are here to support you from zero to impact
What we do
Impact first
At Rainbow Collection we think impact first. We develop sustainability strategies and grow meaningful brands. We support businesses to use their resources, skills and expertise to address the world’s challenges in a profitable and even fun way. That’s how we invest in the new economy and make impact happen.
Focus is the key to make this happen. It is not (only) about compensating your footprint. It’s about the value you add to the world. We help you identify your impact areas and develop a clear roadmap to achieve your mission and grow into a strong impact brand.
Rainbow journey
Step by step we guide you through all the processes needed to become a true impact business. Translating new ideas to practice with support from inside and outside your organization. We combine effective business advice with sustainability expertise and creativity. With over 10 years of experience we’ll get you started, create focus and grow a successful business.
We are unique in being a one-stop Impact Agency and we are here to support you from zero to impact.
Our history
It started with a bracelet
Shake the world
Rainbow Collection started as a project, bringing orange bracelets to the Netherlands as a fair-trade alternative for regular merchandising during the World Cup 2010 (South Africa). To give local craftswoman in the hills of KwaZulu Natal the opportunity to benefit from this global event, we partnered with AfricaIgnite, a local NGO. Over 500 women created more than 125.000 orange beaded bracelets for Dutch supporters. To turn Rainbow Collection into a truly sustainable project and create even more work, the year after we launched the Shake the World campaign: 250.000 bracelets were sold globally to raise awareness on the Millennium Development Goals. We’re happy to see that the bracelet project is still up and running today, fully managed by the NGO.
The next step
After these two great impact campaigns, we started to broaden our work by supporting clients such as Tele2, HEMA and Marlies Dekkers with their impact strategy and impact branding challenges. We trained their employees on what they can do to integrate sustainability in their daily work, and eventually we reached the milestone of 150 business impact cases in 2015. It was time to take the next step: in 2016 we were B CorpTM certified and got awarded as “Best for the World” in the B Corp community. Now, Rainbow Collection is the one-stop impact agency. With over 10 years of experience, we’ll get you started, create focus and grow a successful and impactful business.
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clients
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+ trained employees
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B Corps and more pending
Rainbow Team
Our team of impact & brand strategists and coaches knows everything about strategic sustainability & meaningful branding.
Meet our team
Dieuwertje Damen
Founder & Director, Impact Strategy Expert
As co-founder of Rainbow Collection, Dieuwertje supports ambitious companies to become the future captains of industry. As impact strategy expert & coach, she believes there’s so much more to sustainability than “corporate responsibility”. It’s a powerful tool for business innovation towards a new economic model. As firm believer in system change, her favorite sustainability projects combine practical strategy development and employee engagement and training. The perfect foundation for long-lasting change.
Carlien Helmink
Impact Strategist
Carlien is passionate to create positive impact. As a former social entrepreneur, she has the experience to translate sustainability into opportunities for your organization. With an impact strategy that fits your vision as well as your operation, so it can easily be implemented in your value chain with practical tools, workshops and projects. It will make your organization ready for years to come as the only future, is a sustainable future.
Lana Buunk
Impact Strategist
Lana’s drive is to define where your brand can create the biggest, positive impact. Using its resources, skills and expertise. Underlying a successful impact strategy, are the right tools and insights. A deep-dive into (international) supply chains, or business processes support her to build the right foundation, while coaching businesses in getting started! Any time left? She loves going for a run and overly enjoys good food & cooking.
Piet Berkers
Design & Creative Concepting
Piet is the creative mind of Rainbow Collection. He loves starting with nothing and ending up with a creative idea that boosts sustainability by graphic design, photography or creative workshops. Piet is enthusiastic about human-centered design: a framework that develops solutions by involving the human perspective in all steps of the process. It helps him to unlock the creative potential with the people he works. “Everyone can be creative!”
Rixt Reitsma
Design Lead
Rixt is a designer who creates innovative solutions for challenging projects, with the goal of shaping the future. She loves every aspect of design and possesses a diverse skill set that covers graphic, interior, product, and sustainable design. With her extensive experience, she has the ability to approach projects from various perspectives.
Sophie Heugen
Impact Brand Manager
Sophie has a passion for marketing, positioning and consumers, and she is especially enthusiastic about sustainable decision making. She loves it when brands take the lead in creating impact, especially when they use their marketing to inspire customers and create impact. When there is a sunny day off, she loves taking her longboard out, to go for a fun ride!
Koen Krommenhoek
Impact consultant & Business development
Koen knows all about sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship. His focus is on making the world a healthier place, through innovative, circular and other sustainable opportunities. Koen is excited on letting creativity meet innovation to achieve the biggest possible sustainable impact. He’s looking forward to meet you and discuss what B Corp can add to your business. And if you can’t find him, he’s probably hanging from a kite above the sea.
Marle Engbers
Impact Strategist
Marle makes a positive impact with her enthusiastic energy in project teams, especially those that are facing complex sustainability challenges. Marle uses her experienced lens on organisational culture and behaviour to truly match the sustainability strategy and impact topics with the company DNA. Experience from listed companies to scale-ups, gave her a keen and broad understanding of challenges and opportunities when it comes to sustainable innovation and change.
Margreet van Schaijck
Brand Strategist
How do you use your brand to be the change you wish to see in the world? Margreet firmly believes that companies should use their influence for social and/or environmental change. And that’s were her expertise as a Brand Strategist comes into place. With a clear impact vision, an understanding of behavioral change and a toolkit to create campaigns that move people, you can build a meaningful brand. With her international experience in brand positioning and brand activism, Margreet is happy to help your brand become a platform for change, and bend history in the right direction.
Thijs Hoogenstrijd
Impact Strategist
Thijs his passion comes from bridging the gap between doing business and making an impact. He loves to take on these complex questions, and to bring you in on the ride. Thijs is eager to work with you on the implementation of green business models or sustainable innovations, to help kickstart or boost your impact strategy. Talk to him about impact, and he will talk to you about opportunities. Or just chat with him about something else that gets his enthusiasm going, like motorcycle riding!
Juultje de Groot
Impact | B Corp projectmanager
Juultje is highly motivated to work with companies towards future proof businesses. She is always looking into new opportunities and possibilities, to help companies and people, make different and more sustainable choices. Trained as a Change Agent she believes that it is good to challenge and be challenged. She is excited to help and coach your company through the B Corp process and challenge you and your colleagues to increase your impact even more.
Rainbow Europe
Rainbow Collection EU
Van Diemenstraat 124
1013 CN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+316 34342357
Van Diemenstraat 124
1013 CN Amsterdam, The Netherlands
+316 34342357